The Mark of Zorro (1920)

Douglas Fairbanks: Don Diego Vega, Señor Zorro

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Quotes 

• [Diego is apathetically wooing the woman his father commanded him to marry] 

  Zorro : I have a servant - a wonder at the guitar. Tonight I shall order him to come out and play beneath your window.

  Lolita Pulido : I have a maid - passionately fond of music!

• [Zorro is passionately wooing Lolita] 

  Zorro : If this could be - The high Sierras I would level to your feet - The wild waves on Capistrano's shore should pay you homage - I'd make the desert a million roses yield - - to die in shame before your beauty- If this could be!

• Lolita Pulido : Why do wear a mask?

  Zorro : Perhaps to hide the features of a De Bergerac.

• Zorro : I give you a safe rule, good landlady. Never do anything on an empty stomach - but eat!

• Zorro : Once, in a garden I saw a beautiful rose - I sought to pluck it - quickly. It stung me - Then - - slowly - - cautiously - I reached for it - - and the rose was mine!

  Lolita Pulido : Indeed! Then I'm but another rose?

  Zorro : An, no señorita. You are too wonderful! I dare not even hope.

• Don Diego Vega : Fetch me a pot of honey - - and serve wine to everybody.

• Don Diego Vega : I detest swords and bloodshed - but - to rid our beautiful country of a menace is a noble deed.

• Zorro : Justice for all! Punishment for the oppressors of the helpless - from the governor down.

• Lolita Pulido : Your swordsmanship? Where did you learn the blade?

  Zorro : In Spain, señorita, where there are no eyes like yours.

• Zorro : Oh, such lips! Turn not away. Your face is heaven - all else is blackness!

• Sgt. Pedro Gonzales : We seek the vulture, Zorro!

  Don Diego Vega : You're too fat, Gonzales. Poison the mountain tops and set your traps in the clouds - perhaps you'll have better luck.

• Lolita Pulido : I - give you - freely - the kiss he would have taken.

  [Kiss] 

  Lolita Pulido : I fear for your safety, señor.

  Zorro : Fear not - their wits are as slow as their blades. The weapons you use pierce deep, señorita.

• Don Diego Vega : So many unpleasant things happen - - it is most fatiguing.

• Zorro : You idlers! You wasters! You fashion-plates! You sit and sip your wine while the naked back of an unprotesting soldier of Christ is lashed with the whip!

• Zorro : The heaven-kissed hills of your native California swarm with the sentinels of oppression! Are your pulses dead? Thank God, mine is not - and I pledge you my blood's as noble as the best!

• Zorro : No force that tyranny could bring would dare oppose us - once united. Our country's out of joint. It is for us caballeros, and us alone, to set it right!

• Zorro : Justice for all!

• Zorro : You trust me, Señorita?

  Lolita Pulido : To love is to trust, señor.

• Lolita Pulido : You talk - you fight - you look like Zorro!

  Don Diego Vega : And I love like Zorro...